The topics of the conference include, but not limited, the following research and application areas:
1. Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy
- Wind field measurements and modelling
- Measuring and recording techniques
- Wind effects on long-span bridges and other civil engineering structures
- Wind turbine loads and wind energy production
- Wind and wave action on floating bridges and offshore wind turbines
- Computational wind engineering
- Structural health monitoring of wind sensitive structures
- Aerodynamics of rotors and blades
- Machine subsystems and components
- Power generation and transmission
- Installations and applications
- Economic, environmental and legal aspects
2. Advanced Computational Methods
- Structural dynamics
- Fluid mechanics and thermodynamics
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- Fluid-structure interaction
- Wind energy simulation
- Renewable energies and Marine technologies and operations
- Subsea engineering
- Hybrid supporting structures
- Wave energy converters
- Heat transfer and Combustion
3. Computational Mechanics and Design Optimization
- Finite element methods (FEM)
- Boundary Element Method (BEM)
- Smoothed Finite Element Method (SFEM)
- Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM)
- Finite volume method (FVM)
- Multi-body dynamics
- Isogeometric analysis
- Computational fracture mechanics
- Computational damage analysis
- Cohesive interface modelling
- Numerical analysis of FRP materials
- Mechanical system modelling and simulation
- Modelling and analysis of additive manufactured parts
- Topology optimization
- Modelling and analysis of discrete event systems
- Statistic methods and probabilistic approaches
- Reliability and Risk analysis
4. Structural Integrity and Life Extension
- Structural integrity management
- Loads and loading effects
- Structural degradation and damage
- Experimental methods
- Remaining and life-extension
- Nonlinear structural analysis and design
- Sustainable structural design
- Structural reliability and safety
- Retrofitting, strengthening and repairing
- Fatigue design and analysis
- Fatigue-Corrosion interaction
- Fatigue life prediction
- Fatigue and fracture mechanics
- Corrosion protection and evaluation
- Inspection and non-destructive testing
- Structural health monitoring and sensor technologies
5. Applications and Case-Studies
- Power and energy systems
- Power and energy transmission
- Onshore and offshore renewable energies
- Energy islands
- Oil and gas technologies
- Underwater technology
- Wave energy converters
- Logistic technologies
- Cables, pipelines and risers
- Environmental protections
- Fixed and floating marine systems
- Submarines and robotics systems
- Turbomachines
- Waste management
- Compressors, combustion and turbine systems
- Heat pipes, heat exchangers and cooling systems
- Biomass Conversion
- Photovoltaic Technology Conversion
- Solar Thermal Applications
- Heat recovery steam generators
- Emissions reduction
- Economic, environmental and legal policies